"Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care: Lessons from a Study of Eleven States" - a new report from the Center for Health and Health Care Services - exposes barriers and opportunities for children's mental health under expansion of the Affordable Care Act.
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March 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The effect of medical interventions on the reduction of mental retardation (MR) in the United States between 1950 and 2000 was examined in the present study. The general prevalence of MR was compared to the prevalence of case-specific MR for seven m ...
November 28, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Manish K. Sethi spoke during the 2012-2013 Grand Rounds Series on "Gun Violence in Nashville: Working Towards Community Based Solutions."
June 18, 2012 | Story
Do we really know the best way to test for Alzheimer's disease? A grantee's new research shows that there's more work to be done.
October 18, 2011 | Journal Article
Educators and health promotion proponents can partner to achieve health and educational goals simultaneously.
August 29, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The United States is experiencing a longevity revolution. First, Americans are living longer. At the start of the 20th century, 4 percent of the U.S. population was over 65. Now, the proportion is 13 percent and by 2050, it will be 20 percent. Secon ...
August 8, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
We are fortunate that the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health has a public health component in its curriculum. Its students rotate through both our homeless clinic and our children’s clinic. The exposure students get to public health in thei ...
July 22, 2011 | Story
Persuading physicians to focus on social risk factors. As a Health & Society Scholar, Jutte studied the interaction of biological and social risk factors in early childhood, and their relationship to long-term health and educational outcomes.
July 23, 2009 | Story
James Prochaska, PhD, has been recognized (along with Innovator Carlo C. DiClemente) for his work illuminating how addicted people change in their interest and ability to achieve abstinence.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines whether government-sponsored early intervention programs have the capacity to meet surging demand for autism services. A recommendation by the American Academy of Pediatrics that all young children be screened for autism may create increased demand for autism services.
April 21, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Elsie Taveras, M.D., M.P.H., an alumna of the 2010 class of RWJF Physician Faculty Scholars, has an article in the April 4, 2011, issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine reporting on early results from a two-year study of interventions ...